We all need a bit of help in terms of creating romance in our homes and you
know what what better way to use our Smart Homes than to do that so here come
five ways that you can go ahead and create a little bit of romance using
your smart home the first way I want to give you is actually just creating a
special message and basically you're going to have either your Google Home or
your Amazon Echo go ahead and repeat that a few times throughout the day so
all you're going to do is create a number of routines and they'll all be
named essentially the same thing and you trigger them at certain times throughout
the day just so that your special someone can hear that message so go
ahead create that special message it doesn't have to be long and you just go
ahead and have that triggered by a routine multiple times in a day and
you're guaranteed to catch them off guard speaking of routines and routines
are going to be your friends here you know what set up a Netflix and Chill
routine if you're staying home for the evening now what's interesting about
this is you can now go ahead and say in a Google Home or Google Assistant
routine you can go ahead and specifically state what show you'd like
to start on Netflix so pre choose your show that's always one of the hardest
things for couples to pick from so go ahead pre choose that show actually set
it up as what's called Netflix and chill and have it trigger that on using a
chromecast if you have an Amazon echo you can go ahead and use a fire stick to
turn on something specific you'd like to watch and or you could use a harmony hub
in both systems to actually trigger on Netflix now go ahead use that and then
what you're going to want to do is obviously set some lighting and some
moods or some scenes and you can set the scenes in different lighting systems so
Philips Hue your Yeelights have a great candle light feature you can go ahead
and set that we'll talk about that in a little bit but you can go ahead and set
color loop scenes whatever you'd like for lighting around
your TV or your setup the other thing you can do say you have a Google Home
routine go ahead and set the phones to silent so you're just basically not
going to be paying attention to your phones anymore
turn those to silent you could do that with an Android device if you both have
those now other things a nice little finishing touch that I put on mine is
actually just hey enjoy the show and let me know if you need anything
else and that's actually what my Google Assistant comes out with this is a
little off the grid but something I've always thought about is actually
creating a new album or a new account on social media and just having that be our
account or kind of a romantic account that you can add to as say memories or
things that you guys want to bring up at a later time or just seed together in
terms of picture so what you can do on if this than that is actually whenever
you post to a certain account with a certain hashtag so you could set that
hashtag as Valentine's Day or you could set that hashtag to whatever you'd want
and you go ahead and do that and when you use that hashtag you can have it
automatically post to this new account that both of you would have then access
to it to go and review in kind of a specialized way now that's a gift that
keeps on giving and you're both contributing to so I really like that
idea something else so speaking of gifts you you know there's only a few days
left here but you can actually set reminders using if this than that again
that actually trigger when an eBay item comes up so you can set both the title
or the name of the device and then you can also set what price you want to pay
for that device so you can quietly set a price for your Valentine's Day gift or
other gifts obviously and you will get notifications you can have those
notifications sent to your phone and you can create emails weekly you can do a
number of things with if this then that will that will allow you to essentially
monitor something on eBay and that specific item no I said I'd talk about
the candlelight thing and yyyy light has a great candlelight option for their
light bulbs and as well as their light strip
so I have the light strip here in my home you can go ahead and set that up
say around your bathroom for a bath time or you could obviously do the same thing
and I think the candle light is especially good when paired with other
candles in that kind of a setting so you can go ahead and really create a bath
time type of routine here for your significant other and they can just
enjoy their time there now so no speakers are obviously really good you
could use a Google Home or an Amazon Echo to play some music as well some
soft music so set the volume low play some soft music but yeah there's a nice
trick there with if this than that being able to play a specific playlist or a
specific favorite that you have on the Sonos system that's a previous video so
I'll stick that up there at the top right now so you can go ahead and see
how to set that up but you can also then through Amazon system they have direct
integration with Sonos and so you can trigger that device or those devices to
play music for that bath time basically so clearly guys you can see I'm a
hopeless romantic here I wanted to give a few ideas just out to you for what you
can do during Valentine's Day with your smart home and obviously this is if
you're staying home if you were going out you could make sure that the home
was all clean schedule your room but do things like that where you could just
make sure that the basics at home are managed or taken care of there's other
things you could obviously do you can broadcast or drop in to leave messages
throughout the day for your loved ones and all of these are great little
reminders of what's important to you and your spouse so go ahead guys have a
great Valentine's Day and we'll see you next time